On this day in 1978, United Steelworkers union workers in Sudbury, Ontario voted to go on strike to fight proposed layoffs and pay cuts. The strike was the longest in Canadian history until the record was broken by Sudbury workers in 2009.
The layoffs and cuts to pay and benefits were at the multi-national company Inco, which cited low nickel prices as a justification.
According to filmmaker Martin Duckworth, workers voted to strike against the advice of the United Steelworkers hierarchy, and the strike enjoyed national support because Inco was a known polluter and one of the biggest multi-nationals in Canada.
Around 11,600 workers were involved in the strike, which affected the wages sustaining 43,000 people, or about 26% of the population of metropolitan Sudbury. By the end of the strike, nine months later, the company had been deprived of over twenty-two million hours of labor.
The workers won small wage increase and a pension package, however thousands of workers lost their homes and cars because of the length of the strike. According to journalist Amy Miller, since 1979, INCO has fired 20,000 employees from their staff and now have more people receiving payments from the pension roll than pay roll.
The role of women in the community during the strike was profiled in the 1980 documentary film A Wives' Tale (Une histoire de femmes).
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I would have been such a good journalist on 9/11
We would have gone back to air with me standing in front of the burning towers. I would have been all calm and professional, both stern and with my tie undone so you could tell we scrambled to arrive on scene.
"Ladies and gentlemen, (because there's only two genders) America is under attack". Then a shadow overhead and we nab some great footage of the second plane hitting. I would stare in shock for a moment, then a determined smirk would draw across my face. "I've got to save these people!" I would say directly to my cameraman Richard, who thinks I look great today and wishes I would act a bit sluttier around the office.
I would have gone into the towers and saved hundreds, maybe thousands of people all on camera. I would have been a hero but also I would have a lived, unlike those other idiots. I often wonder if Richard is happy with his life. He smiles around me in a way I don't see him smile around his wife. I've noticed he's been working out recently.
Anyway, up next: my interview with Klaus Barbie
lil Tucky was still sporting his fuckin young sheldon bowtie on Crossfire back then lmao